Help Getting Rid of Desktop Icon.

j.rucinskij.rucinski
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
Recently I tried to move my GIMP Dock Icon to a different space on the dock, and somehow managed to drop it behind the dock. Now it's transparent and I can't remove it. It shows up on top of every window too. Any help trying to remove this? Screenshots below:







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  • Reply 1 of 6
    pepsipepsi Posts: 55member
    Use finder to navigate to your desktop in either column view or list view.



    Delete the offending file.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    j.rucinskij.rucinski Posts: 23member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by pepsi View Post


    Use finder to navigate to your desktop in either column view or list view.



    Delete the offending file.



    It's not showing up in finder, in any view. I tried searching for it in Spotlight and still no luck.



    Any other suggestions?
  • Reply 3 of 6
    mysticmystic Posts: 514member
    try moving the dock to the side or top and then move the icon. Then move the dock back.
  • Reply 4 of 6
    mattsmatts Posts: 37member
    You have restarted your machine, have you?



    -matts
  • Reply 5 of 6
    addaboxaddabox Posts: 12,665member
    What you have there is the lingering sprit of a dead gimp. It haunts your desktop because it feels it has unfinished business there. The frozen grin of its spectral form is only a mask, concealing unbearable sorrow.



    Try talking to it. Ask it what it wants. Only by helping it to resolve its lingering entanglements can you aid in ushering it on to the next plane, and its true destiny.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    kedakeda Posts: 722member
    There are two dock-related pref files on my Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.db and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist



    Try dragging those out of /Prefs, and into the trash...then restart.
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